1908 Magazine: Dorando Petri By Correggio Vince Maratona Ma And 'Disqualified

Description

"LA DOMENICA DEL CORRIERE": original magazine of cm. 36.3 x 27, 6, 16 pages WITH VERY NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS in the text (first and last page in color). Dated
2 - 9 August 1908.
On the front cover the full page illustration with
THE VICTORY OF DORANDO PETRI AT THE LONDON MARATHON WITH HIS SUBSEQUENT DISQUALIFICATION. At the rear SHARK ATTACK GIRLS ON A BOAT ON THE COAST OF DALMATIA
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Good specimen.
On 24 July 1908, the Italian athlete Dorando Pietri runs the marathon at the London Olympics. Dorando Pietri a few meters from the finish, exhausted, falls, then supported by the race judges, will then be disqualified. The image of Dorando waving in front of the finish line, with his body unbalanced and that arm stretched out as if to cling to the ribbon has now become an icon. Without a shadow of a doubt it is the greatest "successful defeat", which became legendary thanks to a sensational "joke" in front of the first rudimentary crank cameras. Dorando is disqualified at the very last meter, a few centimeters from the end of his labors, however the regina wants to reward him with a cup anyway. Inside, however, to Dorando's great frustration, there is no money, but a Union Jack flag. All this, while Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer, doctor and poet, considered, together with Edgar Allan Poe, founder of two literary genres (the yellow and the fantastic), who among other things was on the field at the time of the race, he writes: "No ancient Roman knew how to gird the laurel of victory on his forehead like him ... the great race is not yet extinct".
The fact is that thanks to the non-victory in London, Dorando becomes a world celebrity, a sort of symbol that millions of runners from all over the world have been inspired by and still are inspired by, covering kilometers every day in view of their goal.
On 24 July 1908, the Italian athlete Dorando Pietri runs the marathon at the London Olympics. Dorando Pietri a few meters from the finish, exhausted, falls, then supported by the race judges, will then be disqualified. The image of Dorando waving in front of the finish line, with his body unbalanced and that arm stretched out as if to cling to the ribbon has now become an icon. Without a shadow of a doubt it is the greatest "successful defeat", which became legendary thanks to a sensational "joke" in front of the first rudimentary crank cameras. Dorando is disqualified at the very last meter, a few centimeters from the end of his labors, however the regina wants to reward him with a cup anyway. Inside, however, to Dorando's great frustration, there is no money, but a Union Jack flag. All t